These six bulls are quite famous throughout Queensland. I've even heard rumours of local uni students castrating the bull's testicles and stashing a collection of them somewhere on the campus grounds. But I'm yet to see evidence.

With all this bull action going on, who on Earth knew that Rockhampton had a big dugong?

But more importantly, WHY does Rockhampton have a big dugong?

I put on my detective's hat and went to find out.

It turns out that the 22-metre long sea cow is located on the highway just north of Rockhampton at the Dreamtime Cultural Centre, which is a complex that educates people about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and traditions.

I found out that the dugong is used as a food source along the Great Barrier Reef. In the more remote areas of the coast particularly, the dugong is seen as a desirable animal to hunt because it adds to a nutritional and nourishing diet when other food sources are hard to come by.

In the aftermath of flooding and cyclones over the past few years, seagrass (which is a staple of the dugong diet) along the central coast of Queensland has been extremely damaged, causing population numbers to dwindle through starvation.

Groups of traditional owners in the region have been proactive by agreeing not to hunt dugong for the next few years in an effort to help population numbers stabilise.

So while these marine mammals are procreating in private, eyeball the biggest dugong in Australia through this time-lapse video I made.